August 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Wednesday Aug, 27 2025 A&G Replay contains:
- YouGov Study: Perception of Words Score
- AOL & The Least Attractive Hobbies according to women
- AI & Brain Development
- WSJ Dems Not Trusted
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Jettee.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Arms And.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
So I love this. This is funny. I like words.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that it's just terrific.
The guy starts with, go shopping online. Just about everything
you look at will have a star rating based on
you know, previous customers, right any of them phony, which.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Makes shopping online a bit difficult.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But and he says it's less easy to quantify things
in such a way in day to day life. For instance,
if your friend was telling you about a product, or
a restaurant or whatever, where would their description fall on
the star scale? Blah blah blah, well he said, you're
in the dark no longer. A new Yugov study reveals
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exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various words
or descriptions to be. They have a few dozen words,
then ask people to score them on a scale from
zero to ten, with zero being very negative to ten
being very positive. And as an explanation, I will tell
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you that of the forty words tested, abysmal was seen
as the most negative.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, So this is like, so you asked me, how,
how is that restaurant you went to? And I say great?
They figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative. Well to you.
So when you think of that restaurant you said, it's abysmal,
I wouldn't try it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean it's not like I would. I think, Oh,
that's just his opinion.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Would there be any doubt as to what my opinion
is using the word abysmal? No, slightly less bad comes
the closely clustered fighting it out for second place. Awful, terrible,
and very bad. Now on the other end of the scale.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's interesting, So awful, terrible and very bad obviously a
fairly negative review and the story, but measurably above abysmal.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, abysmol is the clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying
to imagine what would that happened at a restaurant before
I would say that. I mean, the waiter would have
to punch me in the face and give me rancid meat, I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Think as I was being attacked by rats.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, abysmal was my experience. At the other end of
the scale, perfect is the most positively regarded word, with
an average score at nine point one six. Only one
other word managed to break the nine point barrier. Remember
we're on a zero to ten scale, which was outstanding,
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just edging out excellent for second place.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Perfect is similar to abysmo. It would be a hard
to reach. Also, they gave me Kobe's steak, didn't charge me,
and I had an orgasm. I hope you excused yourself
before that last one. Anyway, I had one.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I've had a couple experiences I probably have described as
perfect or something close to it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But they also went with an enormous price tag.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Right, Yeah, like your your anniversary and not like your
twenty first, only like your twentieth and twenty fist that
sort of place you go.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that's that is a good point too. Yeah. I
say that to the kids a lot because I rarely
complain about service, But like sometimes if we're in a really,
really fancy place, I don't expect to sit around thirsty
for very long if I'm going to drop a whole
bunch of money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And right see, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
They don't come back to refill my water. That's what
I expected. Yeah, yeah, all right, So let's I think
it would be better, more entertaining to go from the
best to the worst the words as rated by thousands
of people. All right, we'll start with perfect and orc
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our way down perfect, concluded, orgasm. As we remember, each
one gets less and less appealing, Perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible.
I would have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is
a poles some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb. This
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is getting less impressive as we go. I've never used
I don't think I've ever used the word superb, but
oh I do constantly. I'm superb at using the word superb.
The differences between these various words very very I'd say,
do you use it seriously or sarcastic? I mean, like
the point total depends on my setting, on the setting.
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
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It's always made me laugh. Super super, but this is super,
This is SUPERB with the B shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome,
very good, really good, which is not as good as
very good, great good.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I forgot to tell you it's it's actually bang in
the middle is average. I mean that is exactly in
the middle of these descriptors average.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Wow. Isn't that funny? You know? I mean, of course
it is, but it's funny that it is. And I
will go to a place if somebody tells me it's average,
if the price is low, probably and it's convenient to me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy and Delaney
and I went to the other day, and and a
lot of our friends go to it, and once again
we're like, it's okay. But the one word people use
constantly describe it as consistent. Their food is really consistent.
We have a place like a B minus every time
you go, yeah, we have a place. It's like a
B minus. But it's the charm.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That we go for. It's not like the food.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, okay, anyway, so remember these words are getting less impressive. Great, good,
pretty good, above average, decent, quite good, somewhat good, fine,
satisfactory fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad average,
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And again that was the average score. Weird, mediocre, below average.
We've definitely departed thumbs up folks. We're in thumbs down territory.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We're in probably not going back territory.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, so all right, so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad,
pretty bad, quite bad, poor, and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish.
The original version of this poll was in Britain, then
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they did it in America. Slight differences but not meaningful
enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There was really bad, there was a hair in my soup,
there was more hair in my salad, and then once
again hair in my mentree. The experience went from really
bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling. Can I
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get a razor to shave some of my food? Everything
has hair in it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Finally, appallingsmal, abysmal the worst. Although if somebody told me
our experience was appalling, I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Who decided to rank these words? Well, the great thing
about appalling and abysmal experiences is they make for a
good story.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story. You wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But something that's like abysmal, you're gonna be telling people
about it having laughs. I tell that story way more
than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally,
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona. Ones
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes. Anyway, that's when
I we never got our food, and I went up
to the kitchen to try to figure out what was
going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
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and the cook quent and left right in front of me.
It was really quite the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
To see. But I still talk about that because it
was an appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh wow. So all right, finally final note.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So if you've had an experience that was just completely
average but slightly better, you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Not Yeah, that that story, Katie quickly is. So we
sat there, We sat there, We sat there with that there,
like what's going on? I go up to the kitchen
where you can like, you know, there's a like a
bar there and you can see into the kitchen in
a place liked the made her d saying it's a diner,
and and the waitresses standing there, and the cook is
in there completely ignoring her with a blank look on
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his face, like flipping burgers and baking stuff like, and
she keeps saying, can you hear me? Are you going
to are you going to make the food? What are
you doing? What is happening here?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And he just kept looking straight ahead and kind of
doing things slowly, And then pretty soon he just walked out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I assume he left. Wow, I don't know what
happened there. That had been bruined for a while. I
have a feeling she couldn't get a response out of him.
That's dreadful.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He kept me off a ball sandwich, a turd sandwich.
But we didn't ask about that one. We still laugh
about that experience of Denny's OL. So I got something
out of it. Again, I'd rather have appalling than below average.
What would be worse A ts I'm not going to
repeat the phrase, or a foster cluck. Yeah, mine was
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really more of a fuster cluck than the food being bad.
Because we never got food. We had to go somewhere else.
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
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Speaker 4 (11:30):
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Speaker 1 (11:32):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Is the famous sound of dialing up AOL America online
from back in the day. That was most of our
entry points and do email for one thing, and then
any kind of social media.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You've got mail, Thank you, thank you for that. I
how exciting. I probably still have mail on my AOL
account from so after thirty four years. I think I
read as of today they no longer have a dial
up application. They still did wow as of today. Like
two families in rural Tennessee. I don't know, but the
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most recent statistics I heard were from twenty nineteen, where
there were still a quarter of a million people doing
the dial up for AOL. They probably also eat rope,
roadkill and marry their sisters. But wow, wait a minute now,
unfortunate cliche, but hey, sorry, Clym, you and your sister
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wife are going to have to get Wi Fi or
something because no longer dial up for AOL.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So that's the end of that. And I remember downloading
stuff for the show at the dawn of the Internet,
and if anybody called the house while I was doing it,
it completely ruined the whole process, which took like fifteen
minutes to download, you know, a handful of pages worth
of text.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, it certainly looked there for quite a few years
that this was never like gonna catch on and be
that big a deal. But little did we know, totally overrated.
So there's that this is going to be a tease
for something we will do. How much time I got, Michael,
He's got about five minutes, Maybe I'll start here. Started
it on teaching my son to drive over the weekend,
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specifically driving a stick shift. We've done a lot of
driving living on a farm like we have twenty acres
and he's driven all over in various peekles since he
was I don't know, seven years old. So you can
just put him in a field with the truck and
go drive around trying not to taste something and nothing happens.
So it's not that he hadn't never driven before, but
driving a stick shift that that's brand new to him.
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This a vehicle that I bought him five speed, so
I was exiting he did find, aren't they He did
very very well. I was very excited for him, and
he seemed to really enjoy it, so that was fun.
Killed it once. I said, you're gonna kill it in
front of your friends. Guaranteed you're gonna kill it in
front of your friends, and it's gonna be embarrassing. Happens,
you'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but they don't know how to drive a stick
probably not for all they know he's a captaining the
Starship Enterprise, right, you know, right to be mysterious and
difficult in there.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
This is what we're going to do in the One
More Thing podcast. And if you don't listen to that
every day after the four hours of radio, that we do.
We do another podcast only thing called One More Thing,
and you can find it wherever you find Armstrong and
Getty podcasts, wherever you're finding Armstrong and Getdy on demand. Well,
we'll get to this today. There was a survey done
that I found this interesting as a single guy, the
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most attractive hobbies to women that a man can have,
and they listed him by a lot, like a whole
bunch of them. And this is legit. It's not a
dumb survey. The most attractive hobbies to women, the least
attractive hobbies to women, and we can go through them
in detail. But I was happy to see that the
most attractive hobby to women as a percentage at ninety
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eight point two percent favorability was recross dressings reading as
a reader, I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Happy you can swap clothes and stuff. No reading, as
it turns out, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Cross dressing would have an advantage, wouldn't it If it
was your size. You'd have to date a guy your size. Yeah,
so hey, there have to be well, depending.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
On your size, a pretty small dude or well, it
depends famously.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Some of the tiny little fellas in the Rolling Stones,
that's how they got their fashion senses. They swapped clothes
with their girlfriends. Wow, because dudes were so skinny and
weedy at that point.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Have I ever had a girlfriend I could swap clothes with?
I'm pretty sure not because I'm a d cup. So
we'll get into the list when we do the One
More Thing podcast. But just why do you think reading
is the most attractive trait to women? What's your theory
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on that?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I'm not sure I could come up with anything that
isn't like super obvious. I mean, it shows a certain
level of mental power, curiosity, intellect.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So is it basically just I want a smart person
his brain works? So is that just like shorthand for
I want a smart person? You know?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Interesting about this list and I haven't seen it yet,
But there's the question of universal acceptance because you said
it's ninety eight percent or so. But how much enthusiasm
does it generate? Is it great or is it just
acceptable to everyone? You know what I mean? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yes, Michael, I think you're trying to show that you're
better in yourself and so that you're looking to gain
more knowledge, You're looking to be a better man. That
could be that that's pretty good too. That's good astute observation.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It was, do you want the least popular?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't exactly know what I mean, but the is
a hobby they have as a hobby man o sphere,
which is what they call people who listen to like
Joe Rogan and all those kind of podcasts and are
into that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well more like the Tate Brothers and some of the
real misogynist stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's the least popular. Well, well, why would that be
popular people that are spending it? No, for women, of course,
it's not popular. Only three point one? Who are your three?
You know what I like in a guy? Guys who
hate me because I'm a woman. That's what I really
like it. Again, you're weird contempt for me, it's me
and all my friends.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
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The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So, speaking of technology a different sort than an AI story,
I am completely convince that mankind.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Has invented its doom.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I'm just there's nothing I can do about it, so
I try not to worry about it. I hope my
kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to
have happy lives in spite of the coming.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
AI apocalypse, if nothing else, the biggest change in the
shortest amount of time that's probably ever happened, which would
be whip sawing, even if it turns out okay, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Alicia Finley, who writes for the Journal opinion page, who
I think is just terrific one of my favorite writers,
has a piece today I think it is or recently,
analyzing what people are saying so far, including the CEO
of Amazon about AI with that employee memo.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
With that he sent.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Out the key line of which was, we will need
fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being
done today and more people doing other types of jobs,
and that the people who will keep their jobs are
people who learn how to use AI efectively. And he
explained that AI advances me and employees will do less
rote work and more thinking strategically, which sounds really super great.
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And all this will require a higher level of cognition
than does the rote work many white collar employees now do.
But as AI is getting smarter, I'll start quoting Alicia. Now,
younger college grads may be getting dumber. Like early versions
of chat GBT, they can regurgitate information and ideas, but
struggle to come up with novel insights or analyze issues
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from different directions. And then she goes in an interesting direction.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And this is.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The fruit of the tree of knowledge stuff. We don't
know what we're doing to ourselves, she mentions. The brain
continues to develop and mature into one's mid twenties, some
of us longer than that, but like a muscle, it
needs to be exercise, stimulated, and challenged to grow stronger.
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Technology and especially AI, can stunt this development by doing
the mental work that builds the brain's version of a
computer cloud, a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, yeah, cool, But growing research shows and I remember
we talked about this a while ago. We had a
debate about cursive cursive writing, which seems silly and unnecessary
in handwriting in general. But then these studies have come
out that show that handwriting engages parts of your brain
that play a crucial role in learning and help children
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with word and letter recognition. But more than that, taking
notes by hand also promotes memory development by forcing you
to synthesize and prioritize information. When you plunk away on
a keyboard. On the other hand, information can go as
it were, in one ear and out the other. And
then they studied the electrical activity of university students during
the activities of handwriting and typing, and the way their
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brains worked were very, very, very different. Now that's just
kind of a side point to the greater point, which is.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The dopey grunt.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Work that now the computers do can do, or the
AI can do. Is the very dopey grunt work that
give builds the neural muscles it takes to do the
more advanced stuff. You can't skip to bench pressing two
hundred and fifty pounds having not bench pressed one hundred
pounds ever, neurologically speaking, that's really interesting. And I was
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just thinking in my own life, I do some I
hate the term journaling. I don't know, it sounds so woosy.
My son would say gay and so at all is
high school friends, including gay ones.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But funny, isn't it. Uh? But anyway, writing about things
that are you know, difficult to try to get them
out or figure them out.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But I do it a.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Lot, typing into my notes in my phone, and you're
you're saying that doesn't count, that that doesn't work right
In the same way might be completely wasting my time.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I hate handwriting. I did say I'm left handed, I
have short fingers. I just the physical act of handwriting.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I hate. It's just physically That's funny. My son who's
left handed is that way. He just he just he
almost says it hurts. It's just like he hat it's
physically awful for him to do.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It does get kind of crampy because you're taught that
your letters ought to have a certain slam slant, and
if you're left handed you have to like form a
hook with your hand, and right sideways you're some sort
of degenerates. We've all we all know it.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well. You know, if you don't know this, you should.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The the word sinister is Latin for left handed for
good reason, right, and what's the uh the uh the
equivalent right hand and it's like noble or something.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, anyway, that's why I'm a Satanist.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Anyway, moving along, then you get well, I kind of
made the point already. But if you don't do the
stuff to work up to the advanced stuff, you'll never
be able to do the advanced stuff. And college and
high school students are increasingly using large language models like
chat GPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs, and create
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computer code. That means they don't learn to think through,
express or defend ideas. And Aha moments occur spontaneously within
your brain with a sudden burst of high frequency electrical activity.
When the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts, it finds the
connections and sees patterns, and then it says, oh, wow,
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and we're denying ourselves all of the grunt work to
get there. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I've had that happen with music before, with after years
of doing well, it's like learning scale and then something else,
and then somehow it all comes together at one point. Yeah,
it makes sense so that it can happen with these
this other stuff. But we're so in the first part
we're skipping the scale R.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As quick aside and I realized this sounds kind of
silly and makes it clear that I'm an old bastard
at this point. But Judy and I are really into
doing crossword puzzles. We do like the hard New York
Times like Friday through Sunday crossword puzzles, and I will
and we do them as a team, which is fun
and brings us together, but I will be utterly stumped.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Saturday's the hardest one.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Sunday's kind of a mind blank because often there's a
trick within the puzzle, but Saturday is really hard, and
often I will be completely stumped, and I will go
away for an hour two hours. I will come back
and I will crush it. What happened there? That's worth
thinking about.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How I've been utilizing that my whole life, Like writing
papers for school. I always knew that if I thought
about it, thought about it, thought about it, couldn't come
up with it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
If I slept, I'd wake up and I'd have it.
I would have it.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah, well, and I won't happen. What does happen? I'm
reading this book right now. It's a Graham Green. He's
a fantastic author. You've never written his stuff, but he's
in this novel I'm reading right now. It's about an author,
so he's talking about himself basically. But how writing is
something that happens while you're not thinking about it. He says,
you're gathering all this information, coming up with plot ideas,
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and then the writing happens when you're not thinking about it,
and then it comes out on the page. So it's
just exactly what you're describing. It's your brain is doing
something while you're asleep or occupied doing something else, synthesizes
it and then it comes out.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Or and this is a bit of a quibble, And
this is what I was about to say. I'm not
going to lecture you, but I now discipline myself harshly
using a lash to be bored a certain amount of
the day, to be doing nothing, reading nothing, looking at
nothing but the trees and the sky and my dog
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peeing over there. I am committed to being not occupy
a certain chunk of the day.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So you're like Putty Elaine's boyfriend sitting on the plane
just staring at the seatback. Yeah, I'm fine. Do you
want something to read? No, I'm a right, No anything,
crossword puzzle, I'm fine. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I sat next to a lady like that a few
months ago. I think I talked about it on the air,
and it was freaking me out. It was weird me out.
I was like, is she going to take over the
plane or kill me or explode into a rage or this.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Is not natural?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Shoes are going to catch on fire.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But take time to daydreams. Seriously. Earlier we were talking
about the new Tesla robotaxis. One of them.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Paused in an intersection in Austin or something like that
and made some news.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
But I would see the automated driving on the Tesla,
which kind of fits into the AI stuff, is so
much better than it was three years ago when I
first started writing Tesla. I mean, it's night and day
and it's so good now. And I never thought I
would have any interest in using automated driving, similar to
the first time I iver saw somebody texting and learned
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about it, I thought, why would anybody do that? And
then obviously we all text consotly. Now I use automated
driving all the time. When I drive my vehicle that
doesn't have it, it seems like, oh, this is kind
of a pain in the ass. So you're a convert,
don't well, don't pretend you know what things you'll like,
and you don't.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I know in my own life I've been proven wrong
multiple times. So the NFL is about to change thanks
to AI, and they in the Athletic they're talking about
how coaches are already using AI to analyze tendencies of
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opponents and that sort of thing. They use the example
of there's a wide gulf between the math used to
optimize fourth down decisions and a voiced AI agent telling
you to look out for the weak side linebacker while
you're sitting alone in your office on a Tuesday night.
This assistant coach, who's the offensive coordinator for the Falcon says,
I'm getting a little scared.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I could see where this would go very quickly,
can't you. I mean, and there are I mean without
even thinking of reading with this or thinking about it.
I just AI could crunch the last five years of
all the plays. Say, look, eighty seven percent of the time,
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the other team is going to do this in this situation,
and you react to it, and then that will be
cool up until the point that it's just AI against AI.
You know, a season from now, Uh, your computer telling.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You what play to run in their computer are telling
them how to counter it and having a pretty good
idea what's coming. And they're talking about coaches being replaced entirely,
but teams already have. This guy was hired by the
Raiders as the head coach research specialist, but the job
may be better understood as AI coordinator. He uses AI
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every single day. This is clearly going to happen. I
don't know why I hadn't thought about this before. This
is clearly going to happen. You got super smart people
who study like like maniacs.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
For this stuff to make decisions in the like forty
five seconds you have before between plays or whatever it is,
and now AI is going to be able to do it.
Let me read you some of this.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I feel pretty confident saying that some team is going
to win a super Bowl in the next few years
utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than
it's ever been used before.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Said this coach.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's really an opportunity to differentiate your differentiate yourself from
a team that might have a more talented roster.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Better coaches or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
The ruin there, there's going to be more and more
separation with teams that are have bought in.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, they might have to outlaw that. I mean, because
it's similar to when computers got better at chess than
humans and people thought that'd be the end of chess
or whatever. No, people still like watching the best humans
play each other, even though they're a computer out there
could beat either one of them. Who cares you still
want to know who the best human is. I think
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knowing who the best humans are at guests in the
plays is more fun than two computers battling it out right,
You're right.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It'll be so interesting to see how the league and
the rules adapt to this and how people will then cheat.
Because they're talking about there are systems that can watch
game film, sure of multiple teams, multiple games to analyze
it come up with the probabilities. The next layer, they say,
is understanding personnel as well, because, as they put it,
(30:34):
fourth and one with Mike Vick and Algae Crumpler looks
a lot different than Fourth and one with Kirk Cousins
and Kyle Bitts. Hey, I will figure that out because
they can take it into much information. Give it a week,
they ai. Yeah, so, okay, well that is very interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That will ruin the sport for a season or two
before they have to get rid of it. Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I had never even thought of that, but that's clearly
going to happen.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Eight months after the election, Democrats are still trying to
dig themselves out of a hole. But a new poll
from the Wall Street Journal paints a bleak picture. It
reveals only thirty three percent of registered voters today view
Democrats favorably, while a staggering sixty three percent see them negatively.
(31:35):
That's the worst rating from the same poll since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
At Sayisha Hasny on special report last night with Brett
Brett Bear Fox News slash so Yes analysis in a moment,
I found this next segment pretty interesting, though, go ahead, Aisha.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We're in the dog house yet again.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
If messaging is the problem, the new poll signals Democrats
attacking President Trump isn't working at least yet. That's because
even when more voters disapprove of Trump on issues like inflation,
they still trust congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle
that issue by a whopping ten points. On immigration, the
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same thing, More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the matter,
but Republicans once again are trusted more than Democrats to
manage it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I don't know if I believe this analysis that people
have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor.
It's the uh, I don't know. You've got a friend
who does a few things that are just so crazy
you don't trust his judgment on anything else. I think
that's what's driving it. It's not that. Yeah, the Democrats
(32:52):
view of the economy is specifically blah blah blah. It said,
you're the people that want boys plan girls' sports. Here
are the people that want me to say LATINEX, you're
the people that think we shouldn't have police.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the
crazy factor. Yeah, you put a grown man in my
little girl's locker room. Yeah, exactly. But to her point though,
and it's not in contrast to your point, it's agreeing
with it. So like on inflation and rising prices, Trump
is eleven points underwater, okay, but the Republicans in general
(33:27):
are ten points to the positive. So what Trump's doing
right now on immigration he sees just three points underwater,
but generally speaking, Republicans that are Democrats seventeen.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Point advantage for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump
is approaching this, that or the other, But in terms
of general philosophy that I don't care. I want the Republicans,
which again I don't think disagrees with your point.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I think it agrees with it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Why do they have that percent or why do they
lean so strongly that way? Because they think the Democrats
have lost their effing minds. Let's see, So the Democrats
are thirty three percent favorable, sixty three percent unfavorable, far
weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or
(34:21):
the Republican Party. Yeah, they're underwater, but of course political
parties ought to be underwater. Number when you got their opponents,
and number two you got neutrals or independents and their
own party members who would like them to change what they're.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Doing a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But anyway, Trump is seven percent underwater and Republicans are
eleven percent underwater. But again keep in mind, the Democrats
are thirty points underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah, as always that number of people that are unhappy
with the Democrats, it's a certain chunk who think they're crazy,
like I was just talking about, and a certain chunk,
smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't
gone far enough, they haven't stuck to their guns on
trans issues and defunding the police and climate change and
all the other important things.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Which is even worse news really, But a mere eight
percent of voters view the Democrats very favorably, two and
a half times as many have the same level of
enthusiasm for the GOP.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I we got a long way to go on what direction?
You know what the Democratic Party is going to look
like next presidential election? But I keep hearing people like
smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash
face of the Democratic Party, and she probably is.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Who else would have doomed they are doomed, doomed if
it was you that that go ahead, try it. I
don't know who else would it be as a rhetorical question,
but the answer is a blue state governor who's a moderate.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, but it's got to be a human being so
that Yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an
actual name at some point.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I mean, I could throw out a list, but nobody.
Nobody's talking about Bill Clinton. Nobody's talking about Clinton even
after he entered
Speaker 1 (36:01):
The Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Jettee.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Arms And.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some
good stuff for you. Yes, indeed we do.
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And if you want to catch up on your ang
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to get podcasts now on with the infotainment.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So I love this. This is funny. I like words.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that it's just terrific.
The guy starts with, go shopping online. Just about everything
you look at will have a star rating based on
you know, previous customers, right any of them phony, which.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Makes shopping online a bit difficult.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But and he says it's less easy to quantify things
in such a way in day to day life. For instance,
if your friend was telling you about a product, or
a restaurant or whatever, where would their description fall on
the star scale? Blah blah blah, well he said, you're
in the dark no longer. A new Yugov study reveals
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exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various words
or descriptions to be. They have a few dozen words,
then ask people to score them on a scale from
zero to ten, with zero being very negative to ten
being very positive. And as an explanation, I will tell
(01:58):
you that of the forty words tested, abysmal was seen
as the most negative.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, So this is like, so you asked me, how,
how is that restaurant you went to? And I say great?
They figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative. Well to you.
So when you think of that restaurant you said, it's abysmal,
I wouldn't try it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean it's not like I would. I think, Oh,
that's just his opinion.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Would there be any doubt as to what my opinion
is using the word abysmal? No, slightly less bad comes
the closely clustered fighting it out for second place. Awful, terrible,
and very bad. Now on the other end of the scale.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's interesting, So awful, terrible and very bad obviously a
fairly negative review and the story, but measurably above abysmal.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, abysmol is the clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying
to imagine what would that happened at a restaurant before
I would say that. I mean, the waiter would have
to punch me in the face and give me rancid meat, I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Think as I was being attacked by rats.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, abysmal was my experience. At the other end of
the scale, perfect is the most positively regarded word, with
an average score at nine point one six. Only one
other word managed to break the nine point barrier. Remember
we're on a zero to ten scale, which was outstanding,
(03:39):
just edging out excellent for second place.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Perfect is similar to abysmo. It would be a hard
to reach. Also, they gave me Kobe's steak, didn't charge me,
and I had an orgasm. I hope you excused yourself
before that last one. Anyway, I had one.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I've had a couple experiences I probably have described as
perfect or something close to it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But they also went with an enormous price tag.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Right, Yeah, like your your anniversary and not like your
twenty first, only like your twentieth and twenty fist that
sort of place you go.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that's that is a good point too. Yeah. I
say that to the kids a lot because I rarely
complain about service, But like sometimes if we're in a really,
really fancy place, I don't expect to sit around thirsty
for very long if I'm going to drop a whole
bunch of money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And right see, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
They don't come back to refill my water. That's what
I expected. Yeah, yeah, all right, So let's I think
it would be better, more entertaining to go from the
best to the worst the words as rated by thousands
of people. All right, we'll start with perfect and orc
(04:55):
our way down perfect, concluded, orgasm. As we remember, each
one gets less and less appealing, Perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible.
I would have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is
a poles some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb. This
(05:20):
is getting less impressive as we go. I've never used
I don't think I've ever used the word superb, but
oh I do constantly. I'm superb at using the word superb.
The differences between these various words very very I'd say,
do you use it seriously or sarcastic? I mean, like
the point total depends on my setting, on the setting.
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
(05:45):
It's always made me laugh. Super super, but this is super,
This is SUPERB with the B shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome,
very good, really good, which is not as good as
very good, great good.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I forgot to tell you it's it's actually bang in
the middle is average. I mean that is exactly in
the middle of these descriptors average.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Wow. Isn't that funny? You know? I mean, of course
it is, but it's funny that it is. And I
will go to a place if somebody tells me it's average,
if the price is low, probably and it's convenient to me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy and Delaney
and I went to the other day, and and a
lot of our friends go to it, and once again
we're like, it's okay. But the one word people use
constantly describe it as consistent. Their food is really consistent.
We have a place like a B minus every time
you go, yeah, we have a place. It's like a
B minus. But it's the charm.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That we go for. It's not like the food.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, okay, anyway, so remember these words are getting less impressive. Great, good,
pretty good, above average, decent, quite good, somewhat good, fine,
satisfactory fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad average,
(07:20):
And again that was the average score. Weird, mediocre, below average.
We've definitely departed thumbs up folks. We're in thumbs down territory.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We're in probably not going back territory.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, so all right, so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad,
pretty bad, quite bad, poor, and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish.
The original version of this poll was in Britain, then
(07:53):
they did it in America. Slight differences but not meaningful
enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There was really bad, there was a hair in my soup,
there was more hair in my salad, and then once
again hair in my mentree. The experience went from really
bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling. Can I
(08:30):
get a razor to shave some of my food? Everything
has hair in it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Finally, appallingsmal, abysmal the worst. Although if somebody told me
our experience was appalling, I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Who decided to rank these words? Well, the great thing
about appalling and abysmal experiences is they make for a
good story.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story. You wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But something that's like abysmal, you're gonna be telling people
about it having laughs. I tell that story way more
than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally,
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona. Ones
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes. Anyway, that's when
I we never got our food, and I went up
to the kitchen to try to figure out what was
going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
(09:37):
and the cook quent and left right in front of me.
It was really quite the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
To see. But I still talk about that because it
was an appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh wow. So all right, finally final note.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So if you've had an experience that was just completely
average but slightly better, you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Not Yeah, that that story, Katie quickly is. So we
sat there, We sat there, We sat there with that there,
like what's going on? I go up to the kitchen
where you can like, you know, there's a like a
bar there and you can see into the kitchen in
a place liked the made her d saying it's a diner,
and and the waitresses standing there, and the cook is
in there completely ignoring her with a blank look on
(10:22):
his face, like flipping burgers and baking stuff like, and
she keeps saying, can you hear me? Are you going
to are you going to make the food? What are
you doing? What is happening here?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And he just kept looking straight ahead and kind of
doing things slowly, And then pretty soon he just walked out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I assume he left. Wow, I don't know what
happened there. That had been bruined for a while. I
have a feeling she couldn't get a response out of him.
That's dreadful.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He kept me off a ball sandwich, a turd sandwich.
But we didn't ask about that one. We still laugh
about that experience of Denny's OL. So I got something
out of it. Again, I'd rather have appalling than below average.
What would be worse A ts I'm not going to
repeat the phrase, or a foster cluck. Yeah, mine was
(11:12):
really more of a fuster cluck than the food being bad.
Because we never got food. We had to go somewhere else.
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, or Jack your Joe
podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Is the famous sound of dialing up AOL America online
from back in the day. That was most of our
entry points and do email for one thing, and then
any kind of social media.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You've got mail, Thank you, thank you for that. I
how exciting. I probably still have mail on my AOL
account from so after thirty four years. I think I
read as of today they no longer have a dial
up application. They still did wow as of today. Like
two families in rural Tennessee. I don't know, but the
(12:16):
most recent statistics I heard were from twenty nineteen, where
there were still a quarter of a million people doing
the dial up for AOL. They probably also eat rope,
roadkill and marry their sisters. But wow, wait a minute now,
unfortunate cliche, but hey, sorry, Clym, you and your sister
(12:37):
wife are going to have to get Wi Fi or
something because no longer dial up for AOL.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So that's the end of that. And I remember downloading
stuff for the show at the dawn of the Internet,
and if anybody called the house while I was doing it,
it completely ruined the whole process, which took like fifteen
minutes to download, you know, a handful of pages worth
of text.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, it certainly looked there for quite a few years
that this was never like gonna catch on and be
that big a deal. But little did we know, totally overrated.
So there's that this is going to be a tease
for something we will do. How much time I got, Michael,
He's got about five minutes, Maybe I'll start here. Started
it on teaching my son to drive over the weekend,
(13:21):
specifically driving a stick shift. We've done a lot of
driving living on a farm like we have twenty acres
and he's driven all over in various peekles since he
was I don't know, seven years old. So you can
just put him in a field with the truck and
go drive around trying not to taste something and nothing happens.
So it's not that he hadn't never driven before, but
driving a stick shift that that's brand new to him.
(13:41):
This a vehicle that I bought him five speed, so
I was exiting he did find, aren't they He did
very very well. I was very excited for him, and
he seemed to really enjoy it, so that was fun.
Killed it once. I said, you're gonna kill it in
front of your friends. Guaranteed you're gonna kill it in
front of your friends, and it's gonna be embarrassing. Happens,
you'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but they don't know how to drive a stick
probably not for all they know he's a captaining the
Starship Enterprise, right, you know, right to be mysterious and
difficult in there.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
This is what we're going to do in the One
More Thing podcast. And if you don't listen to that
every day after the four hours of radio, that we do.
We do another podcast only thing called One More Thing,
and you can find it wherever you find Armstrong and
Getty podcasts, wherever you're finding Armstrong and Getdy on demand. Well,
we'll get to this today. There was a survey done
that I found this interesting as a single guy, the
(14:37):
most attractive hobbies to women that a man can have,
and they listed him by a lot, like a whole
bunch of them. And this is legit. It's not a
dumb survey. The most attractive hobbies to women, the least
attractive hobbies to women, and we can go through them
in detail. But I was happy to see that the
most attractive hobby to women as a percentage at ninety
(15:01):
eight point two percent favorability was recross dressings reading as
a reader, I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Happy you can swap clothes and stuff. No reading, as
it turns out, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Cross dressing would have an advantage, wouldn't it If it
was your size. You'd have to date a guy your size. Yeah,
so hey, there have to be well, depending.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
On your size, a pretty small dude or well, it
depends famously.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Some of the tiny little fellas in the Rolling Stones,
that's how they got their fashion senses. They swapped clothes
with their girlfriends. Wow, because dudes were so skinny and
weedy at that point.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Have I ever had a girlfriend I could swap clothes with?
I'm pretty sure not because I'm a d cup. So
we'll get into the list when we do the One
More Thing podcast. But just why do you think reading
is the most attractive trait to women? What's your theory
(15:58):
on that?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I'm not sure I could come up with anything that
isn't like super obvious. I mean, it shows a certain
level of mental power, curiosity, intellect.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So is it basically just I want a smart person
his brain works? So is that just like shorthand for
I want a smart person? You know?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Interesting about this list and I haven't seen it yet,
But there's the question of universal acceptance because you said
it's ninety eight percent or so. But how much enthusiasm
does it generate? Is it great or is it just
acceptable to everyone? You know what I mean? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yes, Michael, I think you're trying to show that you're
better in yourself and so that you're looking to gain
more knowledge, You're looking to be a better man. That
could be that that's pretty good too. That's good astute observation.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It was, do you want the least popular?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't exactly know what I mean, but the is
a hobby they have as a hobby man o sphere,
which is what they call people who listen to like
Joe Rogan and all those kind of podcasts and are
into that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well more like the Tate Brothers and some of the
real misogynist stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's the least popular. Well, well, why would that be
popular people that are spending it? No, for women, of course,
it's not popular. Only three point one? Who are your three?
You know what I like in a guy? Guys who
hate me because I'm a woman. That's what I really
like it. Again, you're weird contempt for me, it's me
and all my friends.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Then dogfighting, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So, speaking of technology a different sort than an AI story,
I am completely convince that mankind.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Has invented its doom.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I'm just there's nothing I can do about it, so
I try not to worry about it. I hope my
kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to
have happy lives in spite of the coming.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
AI apocalypse, if nothing else, the biggest change in the
shortest amount of time that's probably ever happened, which would
be whip sawing, even if it turns out okay, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Alicia Finley, who writes for the Journal opinion page, who
I think is just terrific one of my favorite writers,
has a piece today I think it is or recently,
analyzing what people are saying so far, including the CEO
of Amazon about AI with that employee memo.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
With that he sent.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Out the key line of which was, we will need
fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being
done today and more people doing other types of jobs,
and that the people who will keep their jobs are
people who learn how to use AI efectively. And he
explained that AI advances me and employees will do less
rote work and more thinking strategically, which sounds really super great.
(19:10):
And all this will require a higher level of cognition
than does the rote work many white collar employees now do.
But as AI is getting smarter, I'll start quoting Alicia. Now,
younger college grads may be getting dumber. Like early versions
of chat GBT, they can regurgitate information and ideas, but
struggle to come up with novel insights or analyze issues
(19:32):
from different directions. And then she goes in an interesting direction.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And this is.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The fruit of the tree of knowledge stuff. We don't
know what we're doing to ourselves, she mentions. The brain
continues to develop and mature into one's mid twenties, some
of us longer than that, but like a muscle, it
needs to be exercise, stimulated, and challenged to grow stronger.
(20:00):
Technology and especially AI, can stunt this development by doing
the mental work that builds the brain's version of a
computer cloud, a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, yeah, cool, But growing research shows and I remember
we talked about this a while ago. We had a
debate about cursive cursive writing, which seems silly and unnecessary
in handwriting in general. But then these studies have come
out that show that handwriting engages parts of your brain
that play a crucial role in learning and help children
(20:34):
with word and letter recognition. But more than that, taking
notes by hand also promotes memory development by forcing you
to synthesize and prioritize information. When you plunk away on
a keyboard. On the other hand, information can go as
it were, in one ear and out the other. And
then they studied the electrical activity of university students during
the activities of handwriting and typing, and the way their
(20:59):
brains worked were very, very, very different. Now that's just
kind of a side point to the greater point, which is.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The dopey grunt.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Work that now the computers do can do, or the
AI can do. Is the very dopey grunt work that
give builds the neural muscles it takes to do the
more advanced stuff. You can't skip to bench pressing two
hundred and fifty pounds having not bench pressed one hundred
pounds ever, neurologically speaking, that's really interesting. And I was
(21:34):
just thinking in my own life, I do some I
hate the term journaling. I don't know, it sounds so woosy.
My son would say gay and so at all is
high school friends, including gay ones.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But funny, isn't it. Uh? But anyway, writing about things
that are you know, difficult to try to get them
out or figure them out.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But I do it a.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Lot, typing into my notes in my phone, and you're
you're saying that doesn't count, that that doesn't work right
In the same way might be completely wasting my time.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I hate handwriting. I did say I'm left handed, I
have short fingers. I just the physical act of handwriting.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I hate. It's just physically That's funny. My son who's
left handed is that way. He just he just he
almost says it hurts. It's just like he hat it's
physically awful for him to do.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It does get kind of crampy because you're taught that
your letters ought to have a certain slam slant, and
if you're left handed you have to like form a
hook with your hand, and right sideways you're some sort
of degenerates. We've all we all know it.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well. You know, if you don't know this, you should.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The the word sinister is Latin for left handed for
good reason, right, and what's the uh the uh the
equivalent right hand and it's like noble or something.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, anyway, that's why I'm a Satanist.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Anyway, moving along, then you get well, I kind of
made the point already. But if you don't do the
stuff to work up to the advanced stuff, you'll never
be able to do the advanced stuff. And college and
high school students are increasingly using large language models like
chat GPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs, and create
(23:25):
computer code. That means they don't learn to think through,
express or defend ideas. And Aha moments occur spontaneously within
your brain with a sudden burst of high frequency electrical activity.
When the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts, it finds the
connections and sees patterns, and then it says, oh, wow,
(23:49):
and we're denying ourselves all of the grunt work to
get there. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I've had that happen with music before, with after years
of doing well, it's like learning scale and then something else,
and then somehow it all comes together at one point. Yeah,
it makes sense so that it can happen with these
this other stuff. But we're so in the first part
we're skipping the scale R.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As quick aside and I realized this sounds kind of
silly and makes it clear that I'm an old bastard
at this point. But Judy and I are really into
doing crossword puzzles. We do like the hard New York
Times like Friday through Sunday crossword puzzles, and I will
and we do them as a team, which is fun
and brings us together, but I will be utterly stumped.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Saturday's the hardest one.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Sunday's kind of a mind blank because often there's a
trick within the puzzle, but Saturday is really hard, and
often I will be completely stumped, and I will go
away for an hour two hours. I will come back
and I will crush it. What happened there? That's worth
thinking about.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How I've been utilizing that my whole life, Like writing
papers for school. I always knew that if I thought
about it, thought about it, thought about it, couldn't come
up with it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
If I slept, I'd wake up and I'd have it.
I would have it.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah, well, and I won't happen. What does happen? I'm
reading this book right now. It's a Graham Green. He's
a fantastic author. You've never written his stuff, but he's
in this novel I'm reading right now. It's about an author,
so he's talking about himself basically. But how writing is
something that happens while you're not thinking about it. He says,
you're gathering all this information, coming up with plot ideas,
(25:22):
and then the writing happens when you're not thinking about it,
and then it comes out on the page. So it's
just exactly what you're describing. It's your brain is doing
something while you're asleep or occupied doing something else, synthesizes
it and then it comes out.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Or and this is a bit of a quibble, And
this is what I was about to say. I'm not
going to lecture you, but I now discipline myself harshly
using a lash to be bored a certain amount of
the day, to be doing nothing, reading nothing, looking at
nothing but the trees and the sky and my dog
(25:55):
peeing over there. I am committed to being not occupy
a certain chunk of the day.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So you're like Putty Elaine's boyfriend sitting on the plane
just staring at the seatback. Yeah, I'm fine. Do you
want something to read? No, I'm a right, No anything,
crossword puzzle, I'm fine. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I sat next to a lady like that a few
months ago. I think I talked about it on the air,
and it was freaking me out. It was weird me out.
I was like, is she going to take over the
plane or kill me or explode into a rage or this.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Is not natural?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Shoes are going to catch on fire.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But take time to daydreams. Seriously. Earlier we were talking
about the new Tesla robotaxis. One of them.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Paused in an intersection in Austin or something like that
and made some news.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
But I would see the automated driving on the Tesla,
which kind of fits into the AI stuff, is so
much better than it was three years ago when I
first started writing Tesla. I mean, it's night and day
and it's so good now. And I never thought I
would have any interest in using automated driving, similar to
the first time I iver saw somebody texting and learned
(27:01):
about it, I thought, why would anybody do that? And
then obviously we all text consotly. Now I use automated
driving all the time. When I drive my vehicle that
doesn't have it, it seems like, oh, this is kind
of a pain in the ass. So you're a convert,
don't well, don't pretend you know what things you'll like,
and you don't.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I know in my own life I've been proven wrong
multiple times. So the NFL is about to change thanks
to AI, and they in the Athletic they're talking about
how coaches are already using AI to analyze tendencies of
(27:40):
opponents and that sort of thing. They use the example
of there's a wide gulf between the math used to
optimize fourth down decisions and a voiced AI agent telling
you to look out for the weak side linebacker while
you're sitting alone in your office on a Tuesday night.
This assistant coach, who's the offensive coordinator for the Falcon says,
I'm getting a little scared.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I could see where this would go very quickly,
can't you. I mean, and there are I mean without
even thinking of reading with this or thinking about it.
I just AI could crunch the last five years of
all the plays. Say, look, eighty seven percent of the time,
(28:20):
the other team is going to do this in this situation,
and you react to it, and then that will be
cool up until the point that it's just AI against AI.
You know, a season from now, Uh, your computer telling.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You what play to run in their computer are telling
them how to counter it and having a pretty good
idea what's coming. And they're talking about coaches being replaced entirely,
but teams already have. This guy was hired by the
Raiders as the head coach research specialist, but the job
may be better understood as AI coordinator. He uses AI
(28:58):
every single day. This is clearly going to happen. I
don't know why I hadn't thought about this before. This
is clearly going to happen. You got super smart people
who study like like maniacs.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
For this stuff to make decisions in the like forty
five seconds you have before between plays or whatever it is,
and now AI is going to be able to do it.
Let me read you some of this.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I feel pretty confident saying that some team is going
to win a super Bowl in the next few years
utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than
it's ever been used before.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Said this coach.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's really an opportunity to differentiate your differentiate yourself from
a team that might have a more talented roster.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Better coaches or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
The ruin there, there's going to be more and more
separation with teams that are have bought in.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, they might have to outlaw that. I mean, because
it's similar to when computers got better at chess than
humans and people thought that'd be the end of chess
or whatever. No, people still like watching the best humans
play each other, even though they're a computer out there
could beat either one of them. Who cares you still
want to know who the best human is. I think
(30:03):
knowing who the best humans are at guests in the
plays is more fun than two computers battling it out right,
You're right.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It'll be so interesting to see how the league and
the rules adapt to this and how people will then cheat.
Because they're talking about there are systems that can watch
game film, sure of multiple teams, multiple games to analyze
it come up with the probabilities. The next layer, they say,
is understanding personnel as well, because, as they put it,
(30:34):
fourth and one with Mike Vick and Algae Crumpler looks
a lot different than Fourth and one with Kirk Cousins
and Kyle Bitts. Hey, I will figure that out because
they can take it into much information. Give it a week,
they ai. Yeah, so, okay, well that is very interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That will ruin the sport for a season or two
before they have to get rid of it. Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I had never even thought of that, but that's clearly
going to happen.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Eight months after the election, Democrats are still trying to
dig themselves out of a hole. But a new poll
from the Wall Street Journal paints a bleak picture. It
reveals only thirty three percent of registered voters today view
Democrats favorably, while a staggering sixty three percent see them negatively.
(31:35):
That's the worst rating from the same poll since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
At Sayisha Hasny on special report last night with Brett
Brett Bear Fox News slash so Yes analysis in a moment,
I found this next segment pretty interesting, though, go ahead, Aisha.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We're in the dog house yet again.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
If messaging is the problem, the new poll signals Democrats
attacking President Trump isn't working at least yet. That's because
even when more voters disapprove of Trump on issues like inflation,
they still trust congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle
that issue by a whopping ten points. On immigration, the
(32:20):
same thing, More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the matter,
but Republicans once again are trusted more than Democrats to
manage it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I don't know if I believe this analysis that people
have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor.
It's the uh, I don't know. You've got a friend
who does a few things that are just so crazy
you don't trust his judgment on anything else. I think
that's what's driving it. It's not that. Yeah, the Democrats
(32:52):
view of the economy is specifically blah blah blah. It said,
you're the people that want boys plan girls' sports. Here
are the people that want me to say LATINEX, you're
the people that think we shouldn't have police.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the
crazy factor. Yeah, you put a grown man in my
little girl's locker room. Yeah, exactly. But to her point though,
and it's not in contrast to your point, it's agreeing
with it. So like on inflation and rising prices, Trump
is eleven points underwater, okay, but the Republicans in general
(33:27):
are ten points to the positive. So what Trump's doing
right now on immigration he sees just three points underwater,
but generally speaking, Republicans that are Democrats seventeen.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Point advantage for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump
is approaching this, that or the other, But in terms
of general philosophy that I don't care. I want the Republicans,
which again I don't think disagrees with your point.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I think it agrees with it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Why do they have that percent or why do they
lean so strongly that way? Because they think the Democrats
have lost their effing minds. Let's see, So the Democrats
are thirty three percent favorable, sixty three percent unfavorable, far
weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or
(34:21):
the Republican Party. Yeah, they're underwater, but of course political
parties ought to be underwater. Number when you got their opponents,
and number two you got neutrals or independents and their
own party members who would like them to change what they're.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Doing a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But anyway, Trump is seven percent underwater and Republicans are
eleven percent underwater. But again keep in mind, the Democrats
are thirty points underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah, as always that number of people that are unhappy
with the Democrats, it's a certain chunk who think they're crazy,
like I was just talking about, and a certain chunk,
smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't
gone far enough, they haven't stuck to their guns on
trans issues and defunding the police and climate change and
all the other important things.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Which is even worse news really, But a mere eight
percent of voters view the Democrats very favorably, two and
a half times as many have the same level of
enthusiasm for the GOP.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I we got a long way to go on what direction?
You know what the Democratic Party is going to look
like next presidential election? But I keep hearing people like
smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash
face of the Democratic Party, and she probably is.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Who else would have doomed they are doomed, doomed if
it was you that that go ahead, try it. I
don't know who else would it be as a rhetorical question,
but the answer is a blue state governor who's a moderate.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, but it's got to be a human being so
that Yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an
actual name at some point.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I mean, I could throw out a list, but nobody.
Nobody's talking about Bill Clinton. Nobody's talking about Clinton even
after he entered
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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